Rapidshare.com is very good. the free accounts are time limited for downloads, and you cant do simultaneous downloads.

for a free service thats not as time-restricted, www.megaupload.com/ is good, its free to register and will take 1GB uploads on a free membership and store 50GB on a free membership.
This is more than enough for casual file sharing. and its more reliable.

Their download speed is kinda slow, but its much faster than a torrent, or a common P2P system. rapidshare's download speed is much faster but their free member perks are way less than megaupload.

you RAR an acrchive, upload it to your free megaupload account and just post or send the link for the file to whoever.

they download it right off the megaupload site.
free accounts are 1 file download at a time, and a 25 second wait for the link, but its not bad when you consider the headache downloading torrents are, or the virus hotbed P2P is anymore.

My suggestion is to use megaupload.com for swapping files.
You can post a link to your file where it is stored for anyone to download freely.

just put that address in your web browser address bar and hit go.(or click this link)
enter the 3 letter code and download it. (is a song file, Nicolette Larson, @3MB in size)
see how you like the download speed.

Ive used it for a while its a clean site. So is rapidshare.com

I dont recommend torrents or P2P, they are getting really risky anymore.
and painfully slow.

Rapidshare.com is very good. the free accounts are time limited for downloads, and you cant do simultaneous downloads.

for a free service thats not as time-restricted, www.megaupload.com/ is good, its free to register and will take 1GB uploads on a free membership and store 50GB on a free membership.
This is more than enough for casual file sharing. and its more reliable.

Their download speed is kinda slow, but its much faster than a torrent, or a common P2P system. rapidshare's download speed is much faster but their free member perks are way less than megaupload.

you RAR an acrchive, upload it to your free megaupload account and just post or send the link for the file to whoever.

they download it right off the megaupload site.
free accounts are 1 file download at a time, and a 25 second wait for the link, but its not bad when you consider the headache downloading torrents are, or the virus hotbed P2P is anymore.

My suggestion is to use megaupload.com for swapping files.
You can post a link to your file where it is stored for anyone to download freely.

just put that address in your web browser address bar and hit go.(or click this link)
enter the 3 letter code and download it. (is a song file, Nicolette Larson, @3MB in size)
see how you like the download speed.

Ive used it for a while its a clean site. So is rapidshare.com

I dont recommend torrents or P2P, they are getting really risky anymore.
and painfully slow.

Hi and welcome to the forum!
Thanks for the info. I'll look at both of these today.

RapidShare is Okay . . . but downloading (with a free account) only 100MB every 2 or 3 hours is very time consuming . . .

MegaUpLoad has download limits and, like Rapidshare, has unreasonable waiting times to resume . . . 250MB is just too little to be able to share at a time

MediaFire . . well don't get me started on them. USE THEM AT YOUR OWN RISK!!

DivShare doesn't seem to be too bad, I like the fact that you can arrange your files in folders.

Unfortunately, at the moment Multiply seems to be the most reliable with the fewest restrictions

Most of the file sharing sites will only allow free users to download one file at a time so file zipping of some type is recommended.

One site that I've been seriously considering is using the archive.org site. It allows huge files and there doesn't seem to be any time restrictions . . . plus they appear to have TONS!! of bandwidth . . and you can do multiple downloads with a download accelerator

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RapidShare is Okay . . . but downloading (with a free account) only 100MB every 2 or 3 hours is very time consuming . . .

MegaUpLoad has download limits and, like Rapidshare, has unreasonable waiting times to resume . . . 250MB is just too little to be able to share at a time

MediaFire . . well don't get me started on them. USE THEM AT YOUR OWN RISK!!

DivShare doesn't seem to be too bad, I like the fact that you can arrange your files in folders.

Unfortunately, at the moment Multiply seems to be the most reliable with the fewest restrictions

Most of the file sharing sites will only allow free users to download one file at a time so file zipping of some type is recommended.

One site that I've been seriously considering is using the archive.org site. It allows huge files and there doesn't seem to be any time restrictions . . . plus they appear to have TONS!! of bandwidth . . and you can do multiple downloads with a download accelerator

Is there a file-sharing site that accepts zip files? Seems to me, being able to download these would cut down a lot of time on individual episodes. It gets kinda tiresome, when you have 40 or 50 episodes to a series . I am speaking of something other than RapidShare or MegaUpload.

And, speaking of ZIPS...Victor, I do quite a bit of ZIP downloading, from the Archive And, then...someone always comes along and tells me "I have a better sounding set than that!" _________________Gil

Is there a file-sharing site that accepts zip files? Seems to me, being able to download these would cut down a lot of time on individual episodes. It gets kinda tiresome, when you have 40 or 50 episodes to a series :D. I am speaking of something other than RapidShare or MegaUpload.

And, speaking of ZIPS...Victor, I do quite a bit of ZIP downloading, from the Archive :D And, then...someone always comes along and tells me "I have a better sounding set than that!" :D